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Patent-Pending Wind Turbine Blade Lifting Tool
Patent-Pending Wind Turbine Blade Lifting Tool
Design Engineering Co-op — LiftWerx
Designed a lifting tool for wind turbine blade maintenance operations to reduce high-wind work delays.
**Details, drawings, and photos are omitted due to confidentiality**
Impact
Impact
Increased operational weather window by 40%
Enabled ~$123k/month additional revenue
Designed for 1MW and 2MW blade platforms
Engineering Challenges
Engineering Challenges
Maintain blade orientation under high environmental loading
Limit surface pressure applied to composite blade
Meet crane mass constraints
Accommodate multiple blade geometries
Technical Work
Technical Work
Developed structural design from concept through fabrication drawings
Performed load determination using ASME BTH-1 and CSA S16
Conducted 185-body shell-based FEA study across multiple load cases
Iterated geometry to reduce stress concentrations and improve stiffness
Designed weldments for manufacturability and assembly sequencing
Created fabrication drawings for manufacturing release
Key Takeaways
Key Takeaways
Large-scale structural design under operational constraints, including code-based analysis, simulation-driven iteration, manufacturability, and supplier coordination.
SolidWorks • FEA • ASME BTH-1 • CSA S16 • Weldment Design • Structural Analysis
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